Drawing participants from the breadth of religious experience, this series asks how traditions of faith might illuminate themes of American life in substantive and surprising ways. With Krista Tippett.
Learning, Doing, Being — A New Science of Education: What Adele Diamond is learning about the brain is turning many of our most modern ideas about education on their head. It is scientifically explaining the educational power of things like play, sports, music, memorization and reflection — Diamond herself has maintained a lifelong love of dancing alongside her science, and she embodies the delightfully challenging story her research has to tell. What nourishes the human spirit, the whole person, it turns out, also hones our minds.
Krista Tippett's Journal
I've seen a helpful reference to our evolving understanding of the prefrontal cortex as "the science of attention." This is a wonderful and evocative phrase. Filled with everything I've learned from Adele Diamond, it gives me a whole new category for thinking about one of my favorite subjects — the organic interplay between scientific inquiry and spiritual inquiry …
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